300 
Butoo borealis, 
Middlesex County, Mass. 
1868. 
Not, i6. 
Drove within easy shot of one. 
* 7. 
Shot a female from my buggy. She was sitting on 
a tall tree by the roadside and paid no attention to me. 
Stomach contained mice only. 
* 16. 
Shot a male from my buggy. 
1871, 
Fob, 6, 
slender 
One sitting on the top-most twig of a small apple 
tree. 
1872. 
Jan, 28. 
A fine adult so high-colored above that he looked 
almost white; he sailed over a small company of Blue 
Jays which in great alarm scattered in all directions; 
but'When ho alighted in an oak near by several of them 
followed him perching above him. 
Feb, 12. 
A fine adult in Cambridge Cemetery; he started be¬ 
fore I got within range, probably frightened by the bolls 
on my sleigh. 
•• 18. 
Found the Red-tailed Hav/k seen yesterday in the 
same place to-day; in fact he was sitting on the same 
branch. The attraction here is evidently an open 
springy ditch. 
Mar. 4. 
Found my bird in his accustomed place in the Ceme- 
tory with a largo flock of Blue Jays near at hand mimic- 
ing the scream of the Red-shouldered Hawk, 
Apr, 2 . 
Migrating all day at Concord, Mass, 
1873. 
Nov. — 
on Observations on this specif3B 
on pp, 130-136 of my Journal for 1873, 
* 6. 
Shot a fine adult female from my buggy as it was 
sitting in a tree by thr roadside in the Winchester Place 
Its crop contained a small rat the head of which was do— 
tatchod from the body, but both swallowed; in the stom¬ 
ach were the remains of two or throe mice, including 
both heads and bodies, and among them a slender white 
worm about six inches in length. The bird v/as very 
fat but easily skinned. 
1874, 
Jan 24. 
A pair circling together in Watertown uttering a 
loud creo-o-o, cree-e<*s^n. 
Oct. 11. 
\ 
A fine adult sitting on a locust by the roadside 
in Waverly, 
